Text messages sent between iPhones and Android devices will soon benefit from end-to-end encryption (E2EE), after the GSM Association (GSMA) Yesterday Published new specifications For the rich communication services (Rcs) Protocol that includes support for interplatic E2EE.
RCS is a long-standing endeavor to enable inter-platform communications of SMS style with richer features, such as group messages, typing indicators, read receipts and sharing file-like files to what message programs like WhatsApp provide.
While many Android -Makers had adopted Rcs Through the yearsApple was the main earlier until it finally perished with the Introduction of iOS 18 last year. Most of the core RCS features have been available for inter-platform messages since then, but E2EE has so far been missing now.
Sell point
E2EE, for the non -initiative, is a data encryption method that ensures only the sender and the recipient of a message can read its content. For TE Companiesnological Companies, this promise of keeping privacy is an important sales point, as it assures users that their messages are secure against subreptic snooping. Apple has offered E2EE since it launched iMessage back in 2011Although of course this worked only among iOS devices, while WhatsApp completed its E2EE Rollout in 2016 (And, again, it worked only among WhatsApp users).
Google, for its part, has Before added e2ee to its Own messagesBut encrypt messages through not only different customers but completely different platforms come with their own unique challenges. There is the GSMA Universal profile Enter the Fray, providing a standardized specification for consistent, interoperable RCS message through devices, networks and operators.
Based on the cryptographic messaging -layer -security (Mls) Protocol, the new E2EE mechanism in the Rcs universal profile 3.0 It is an essential piece of the Interoperable Jigsaw, one that will ultimately enable iPhone users and Android to communicate safely through the native message program of its device.
“That means RCS will be the first large -scale message service to Statement. “Along with other unique security functions such as SIM-based authentication, E2EE will provide RCS users the highest level of privacy and security for stronger protection against frauds, fraud and other threats to security and privacy.”
